Improvement in slates



c. VERD IER.

SLATES. No.176.9.O4 Patented May'z, 1876..

ILFETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAFNEIR, WASHINGTON, D C.

plied.

UNITED STATES PATENT CFFIGE.

j OLAUDIUS VERDIER, OF DETROIT, MIGHIGAN. v

IMPROVEMENT IN SLATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 176,904, dated May 2, 1876; application filed I March 6, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Figure 1 represents a front view of my improved slate; and Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same on line 0 0, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention relates to an improved schoolslate, in which the pencil is stored away in readily available and convenient manner, and also a means for sharpening the pencil sup The invention consists of a school-slate whose frame is arranged with a pencil-receptacle at each side, closed by a door, and also .that is somewhat enlarged at the upper end,

to admit the convenient taking out of the pen- .E, with a steel knife, by which the pencilpoints are conveniently sharpened without a' detached device for the purpose.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- Aslate having frame A, provided with a pencil-receptacle, B, enlarged at the upper end, and with the hinged spring-held door, as

and for the purpose specified.

' GLAUDIUS VERDIER. Witnesses A. B. M. FAUL, RICHARD 0. PAYMENT. 

